This is one of those books that need to be read from front to back. No fair peeking to see "Who done it."
Louis O. Kelso caries you step by step through the pitfalls of political systems including capitalism to a more robust form of political freedom that can only be achieved with economic freedom. Who owns the Alaskan pipeline? What is leisure and how does it benefit humanity? We are moving out of a labor-based world and need to adjust our way of thinking. Many things have come to pass in the years since this book was written and the principles still hold up.
This book is an eye opener and you will look at what you see on TV and read in a new way. Do not confuse this system with any previously read book.

This book is an extremely powerful and pithy explanation of how capital and labor interact in modern capitalism. It argues that wealth tends to concentrate because capital is more productive than labor, and so it calls for policies to compensate labor with capital instead of cash.

This is the long awaited basic textbook for osteopathic medicine. It is surprisingly complete, covering philosophy, history, research, and manipulative techniques. The beginning osteopathic student may find it most useful for its practical discussion on the techniques--high velocity, myofascial release, etc. I believe it is also helpful in standardizing our terminology, which will make it easier when taking board exams or talking with colleagues from other osteopathic schools. It includes contributors well known within the osteopathic community, including Michael and William Kuchera, Melicien Tettambel, Eileen DiGiovanna, and many others. As a family practice resident I frequently turn to this textbook first when I want to know more about how to treat a patient or when preparing lectures for students and housestaff.

This text is actually required reading for most if not all osteopathic medical students. It is a 'textbook', however, and hence completely (sometimes exhaustively!) comprehensive. But it is easy to read so that anyone with an interest in OMT will get a methodic how-to for myriad techniques, also a thorough history of osteopathic medicine to boot! One of my OMT professors at the University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine wrote or co-wrote a few of the chapters so of course, I think those are the best! If you are looking for an educational approach to learning manipulation and the reasons behind it, this is a valuable resouce.

I bought this book after reading the review below and found that it was right on. I wanted to share it with anyone out there interested in real gains. This book WORKS! Read on...

From Powerlifting USA, October 2002.

... Paul Kelso has ... finally ... updated his original book on shrugs, a revamp so comprehensive that the new version is actually 75% longer! He not only added a lot of material, but rewrote much as well, cutting out some stuff he no longer believes in and actually adding two new chapters, including one on bench pressing that demands your attention. He has also codified his philosophy into what may evermore be known as "Kelso's

Shrug Laws."

This is not just an exhaustive treatise on an relatively under-utilized body of training movements: it is an effort to really think through the exercise and develop every conceivable practical application for it. After reading the book, I was struck by the depth of Paul's historical investigation of the exercise (he carefully and consistently notes that he did not "invent" much when it comes to the shrug ... but he sure has organized virtually all

that has ever been known about it), as well as the way he places this exercise into its proper context within physical culture.

Paul has a reverence for strength that underlies all he writes, and he's a terrific yarn teller to boot. If you never do a shrug, you will still be the better for reading this book, because in the telling of the tale of the shrug, you will indirectly come to understanding of the essence of why men and women lift weights in the first place.

As I said, the chapter on the shrug and the bench press will merit your consideration ... recent devotee Collin Rhodes put 44 lbs on his already accomplished bench press in just one year, using shrug principles - like the "lateral" arch.

Paul Kelso is a great guy and has written a great book. -- Mike Lambert

This was the first book by Paul Kelso that I had ever read; however, I had seen his fine writing in many of the "iron game" magazines and liked his style. Paul takes an approach to an exercise called the "shrug" to a new level. It was absolutely amazing how performing such a simple exercise with high intensity can add pounds to all your lifts. Paul's book is a must read; especially if you have lost your motivation in the gym or you think you have peaked on your lifts. This book will inspire you and you will hit new goals. Great, simple read!

This short book details the first year of the excavations made to try to find the site of the original James Fort, the first permanent English settlement in Virginia. This book, which is the first in a continuing series of publications highlighting the discoveries, is richly illustrated with pictures of the various objects recovered which include armor, crockery and items of daily life. It is enhanced by the inclusion of paintings from the period that illustrate identical or very similar objects. There is a bibliography and informative endnotes that include accession numbers and measurements of the artifacts.

This book is written for the lay person and would be appropriate for older children. I highly recommend it!

My thanks to Gordon Padwick. Integrated Office Application lifted the veil from my eyes and I finally understood how to control one MS Office application from another. It has great, practical examples of how to control Excel from Access, Access from Excel, Excel from Word, etc. Learning about CopyFromRecordset (an Excel Range method) was enough to justify purchase of this book! I grok it now.

What language would It use to describe itself? Can something like mathematics, music, language or art, which It created contain the essence to even describe itself? Do modern models describe It any better than earlier models? In the context of the times does Non-linear Dynamics attractors describe (or for that matter predict) any better than C.Jung's archetypes? As far as that goes, since they both describe scales of magnitudes, why is their so much similarity between so many of each others concepts?(enantiomorphism vs. entrainment). One would think the biological scientific community would really embrace the concepts in this book for the simple reason to get them off the hook with one of their most difficult areas. If the human brain and thus cognitive and conscious processes are a product of limit cycles and memory simply a function of a hystersis curve the entire process becomes a function of Newtonian physics in support of biology's basic premise. Self-determination and teleological arguments become academic. Mind boggling. (I think the human brain is highly overrated). While Kelso's book Dynamic Patterns doesn't answer these questions either, it is still a pretty good book (overlooking not having any equations on the first page). Already in it's third printing it doesn't need me to critique it. For computer modelers: Mathcad contains the necessary (logistics) for scalar mapping and iterated bifurcations to provide the background to create the models used in the book. (including Lorenz models, Duffings, ODE solvers). Dynamics: Numerical Explorations, (Springer) with related program even goes one better. Matlab's signal processing toolbox, (creates any signal p.48, check out the Hofstader sequence relation to Kelso's basic signal), wavelets toolbox (creates Farey sequence, most converging fraction sequences paint this same picture). Because these equations can be set up as state-space models the same model can be used Matlab's system identification, control, and neural net toolboxes (use feedforward instead of feedback). For biologicals: Most applicable non-linear equations are much better handled by differential equations. While a unit circle torus may work for pictures it is does not give unique solutions and thus calculable answers. Assuming the time constant is the same in each differential equation and then cascading the solutions into each other to build matrices that can then be used to build the phase plots easily solves this. Check out Spikes, Decisions, and Actions (Wilson) probably the best as far as Matlab add-ons go (real action figures basic formulas and models can be modified to see the effect of gain i.e., use of amphetamines or inhibitors SSRI). Although Koch's (Biophysics of Computation provides good background in stochastic processes in the Markovian sense and Tri-diagonal matrices) startneuro Simulink from Methods in Neuronal Modeling (MIT Press) is a lot more fun!(Gabrianni and Koch) In the same book is Rinzel and Ermentrout's original work on Oscillations. And last but not least the internet address for all these and the classic Neuron model by Hines is included.

An anthology of about 70 short works, there's no more economical way to sample such a wide range of comic book talent today. The standouts in this collection are by Dave Choe, Craig Thompson (Good-bye, Chunky Rice), Chris Ware (Acme Novelty Library), and David B.

$7 for 352 pages is a steal.

Except your credits are bit off.

All of the editors you've listed are actually artists who contributed the art, comics and articles to the book.

The editors of Expo 2000 were Tom Devlin, Chris Oarr, Christian Panas, Jeff Alexander, Karon Flage, Greg McElhatton and Charles Brownstein.

The book is an annual anthology produced by the Expo/SPX in conjunction with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as a fund raiser for the CBLDF. Oni Press is not the publisher.

You did get the ISBN number right.

This book is the best guide for film theories in post-war periods. Francesco Casetti' studies are shown to, on the one hand, "what is said" about film; on the other hand, how that content is expressed. These attempts is mapping the development of the various theories both diachronically and synchronically. You will need to read this book, if you wanna know the currency of film theories.

Francesco Casetti's exceptional book is an incredibly helpful and insightful tool in understanding the development of cinema post-WWII. In it he traces the development of the predominant approaches to cinema in the second half of the twentieth century. This book will open your eyes to what underlies contemporary cinema. It will give you an appreciation of the complexity and the multiplicity of visions that form the base of the 20th-century art for par excellence, the motion picture. A must have for anyone desiring to gain a real understanding of film.

Honestly, if you decide to read this book, don't expect much. It is a rough read and provides random routines that do not provide a great deal of help to anyone trying to get into the sport of powerlifting, or just interested in putting up some weight. The routines in the book really don't provide any helpful info.
In short, if you are interested in a tall tale, read Pecos Bill. If you want a good powerlifing routine, read something else. If you want to blow 20 bucks on a few decent exercises you could get from your local trainer, read this.

-R-

Kelso takes a story about a weightlifter in a simple Texas town and turns it into a motivational journey that will have you rushing to your next workout. Kelso's writing is easy to follow and packs a strong message about dedication and hard work to achieve results with the iron. A great read and a great addition to any sports book collection.

I think the Kelso book (Powerlifting Basics, Texas Style) is one of the BEST primers for beginning lifters.

Kelso is able to do several things with that book that have eluded so many others:

1. It is focussed on developing a combination of real strength, size, power, and ability.

2. It stays on path with the common lifts that most folks know and can do, and doesn't go inot the weird and esoteric lifts that are only a distraction to the new and intermiediate lifter (rock lifting, one arm anvil presses, etc.)

3. He does address power rack work in as good a fashion as Brooks Kubik in "Dinosaur Training".

4. He offers lots of routines, but also "teaches" how to design programs and routines for various purposes.

5. He keeps a positive tone that supports the beginning and intermediate lifter, without going into the esoterica of how to train to bench 700 lb., etc.

6. He set the entire book in Texas, God's country and the home of High School powerlifting.

As well, Steve Holman, editor of Ironman magazine, reviewed it in the '97 January issue. He said (and I agree)...

"Since I come from Texas and was a fanatical participant in the Texas powerlifting scene at one point in my life, I devoured Paul Kelso's Powerlifting Basics, Texas-Style in record time. Although I never met any of the characters in his book-at least I don't think I did-there were plenty of folks in my neck of the woods who resembled many of Kelso's colorful acquaintances.

Lope Delk is one of his central characters, a know-it-all good ol' boy in his mid-40s who learns a lot of lifting and life lessons along the way, despite his hard-headedness. For instance, Kelso teaches him the bench shrug, a shoulder-girdle strengthener that builds bench press power. It develops the shoulder roll used by most great benchers, although many don't know they do it.

While the majority of Kelso's book is devoted to training anecdotes and routines, he peppers the pages with real-people views of bodybuilding and powerlifting. For instance, the lady librarian at the university where he worked considered IRONMAN "an anti-intellectual expression of narcissistic testosterone poisoning." Say what? Considering his description of the snooty librarian, we'll consider that a compliment.

This book is full of entertaining scenarios that will have serious lifters going from rolling on the floor with laughter to lapping up loads of solid training advice and programs. It's not just powerlifting though. Kelso leaves no iron stone unturned. He talks about breathing squats, basic bodybuilding, high-intensity training and even supplements: "Back in the '50s we all loaded up on raw milk and peanut butter and soy-based protein powder. We got bigger and stronger. Got gas too."

I'll leave you with one example that's indicative of Kelso's writing style and humor. He said he received a letter from a boy in Calcutta, India, who couldn't gain weight. The boy explained that the people in his village relied on the fish they caught for food. They didn't eat the fish, but traded it for "muhi," a poi-like carbohydrate paste that made up almost their entire diet. Here's Kelso's answer, and the results:

"I suggested he save back and eat a fish a day and explained about protein needs. He tried it awhile and was beefing up until his father caught him and beat him. I wrote a letter to his dad and included a picture of Steve Reeves in some kind of Sinbad outfit and told him that all the sons of the village could look like Steve if they ate a fish a day.

"Pretty soon the entire village was into it and getting healthier. Then I got a letter from a U.S. government agency telling me that I had created an international incident by interfering in the internal affairs of a foreign nation, and my scheme was playing havoc with the local economy and disrupting traditional values. My bodybuilding fisherman explained that the village headman was bought off by the muhi dealers. After a couple of food riots, the young man and his dad proceeded to become what passes for wealthy in the village by bootlegging fish. Shows you what kind of clout I have."

You can only imagine what the Stretch Mark Machine chapter is about. Paul Kelso has created a true iron classic, and you'll enjoy it and benefit from it-even if you've never been to Texas.

Pros: Great powerlifting and bodybuilding info, routines and tales interwoven with colorful, hilarious narration.

Cons: You may chuck everything, move to Seldom Seen, Texas, and start chewing Red Man tobacco when you lift."

This book allows the reader to see 1957 Little Rock Arkansas from the viewpoint of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the nine African American teens to integrate Centeral Highschool.

Richard Kelso writes in a manner which allows young readers to grasp the political situation that America was in ,and the racial tension that was blatantly displayed at the time.

Students who have read this book also find the personal viewpoint of teenage Eckford easy to relate to. The characters were very real and understandable.

I have taught this book to both 4th and 6th grades with great success. It is a great discussion starter and tolerance teacher.

This serious book tackles the huge topic of discrimination in a very real and easy to understand manner. Students are able to grasp the frustration of ninth grade Elizabeth Eckford, one of the nine African American teens that struggled to integrate Little Rock High. I have successfully used this book to discuss civil rights and freedom with grades 4-6.

A great book to teach in conjunction with The Sneeches by Dr. Suess, and Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals (another of the Little Rock Nine).